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August 4, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, August 8, 2008 at 8 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Entombment will be at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover where she will be laid to rest with her loving husband Benedict.
Mildred Ackermann (nee Jacobs) age 96 of Wayne died Monday, August 4, 2008 at the Care One Health Care Center in Wayne. Her passing was quiet and peaceful while receiving the loving care of the staff at Care One.
She was born in Czechoslovakia and came to this country at age eleven with her sister Agnes and her grandfather. Her mother, Anna Jacobs came to this country with daughter Mary prior to Mildred’s journey.
The year was 1922 and there was much hardship and political unrest in Czechoslovakia and her mother wanted a better life for her family. The ravages off World War I were all around them and they had heard good things about America.
The family first settled in Brooklyn, New York and later moved to Newark, New Jersey. The Jacobs girls (Mildred, Agnes and Mary) added another sister (Ann) to their family. It was because of this family’s courage and fortitude to leave their homeland that they were able to live the American dream.
Mildred married Benedict Ackerman and they had fifty-one years of “good close and loving marriage” together until Benedict’s passing. They spent most of their married life in Springfield however they would winter in Jupiter, Florida during their retirement years.
Benedict was a talented vocalist and belonged to a barber shop quartet. Mildred delighted in accompanying him on his many singing engagements. She also loved to read however later in life she lost most of her sight and could no longer enjoy her books.
She leaves her nieces and nephews with many fond memories of a very loving and caring aunt and they in turn loved and cared for her throughout the years. It was a mutual benefit caring relationship all around.
Surviving are nephews William Smith and his wife Annette of Wayne, Kenneth Korec and his wife Joanne of Ohio; William Jude Smith of Charlotte, North Carolina; a niece Karen Korec of Bloomfield; a sister in law, Ben’s sister Josephine Wiener of Toms River
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Funeral services will be held Friday, August 8, 2008 at 8 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Entombment will be at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover where she will be laid to rest with her loving husband Benedict.
August 4, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, August 8, 2008 at 8 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Entombment will be at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover where she will be laid to rest with her loving husband Benedict.
Mildred Ackermann (nee Jacobs) age 96 of Wayne died Monday, August 4, 2008 at the Care One Health Care Center in Wayne. Her passing was quiet and peaceful while receiving the loving care of the staff at Care One.
She was born in Czechoslovakia and came to this country at age eleven with her sister Agnes and her grandfather. Her mother, Anna Jacobs came to this country with daughter Mary prior to Mildred’s journey.
The year was 1922 and there was much hardship and political unrest in Czechoslovakia and her mother wanted a better life for her family. The ravages off World War I were all around them and they had heard good things about America.
The family first settled in Brooklyn, New York and later moved to Newark, New Jersey. The Jacobs girls (Mildred, Agnes and Mary) added another sister (Ann) to their family. It was because of this family’s courage and fortitude to leave their homeland that they were able to live the American dream.
Mildred married Benedict Ackerman and they had fifty-one years of “good close and loving marriage” together until Benedict’s passing. They spent most of their married life in Springfield however they would winter in Jupiter, Florida during their retirement years.
Benedict was a talented vocalist and belonged to a barber shop quartet. Mildred delighted in accompanying him on his many singing engagements. She also loved to read however later in life she lost most of her sight and could no longer enjoy her books.
She leaves her nieces and nephews with many fond memories of a very loving and caring aunt and they in turn loved and cared for her throughout the years. It was a mutual benefit caring relationship all around.
Surviving are nephews William Smith and his wife Annette of Wayne, Kenneth Korec and his wife Joanne of Ohio; William Jude Smith of Charlotte, North Carolina; a niece Karen Korec of Bloomfield; a sister in law, Ben’s sister Josephine Wiener of Toms River
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